MIT Professor Edward Crawley reflects on five decades at the Institute and beyond. From teaching and research to entrepreneurship, government and industry collaborations, and launching a new university, Crawley has done it all and shows no signs of slowing down.
An academic movement to sever research ties with Russia gathered steam over the weekend, as leading US university MIT announced it is ending its 11-year partnership with Russia’s tech hub, Skolkovo. “This step is a rejection of the actions of the Russian government in Ukraine,” according to a statement from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It said it notified its Russian partner, the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology or Skoltech, that it is “exercising its right to terminate.”